After declaring a ‘climate emergency’, Devon councils are sending schools teaching materials from the Devon Climate Emergency initiative that urge children to abandon meat and listen to whale songs to address “climate anxiety”. The Telegraph has more.
Teaching materials sent to schools last month by the Devon Climate Emergency (DCE), a local authority-led climate change initiative, aim to combat growing “climate anxiety” among five to 16 year-olds.
Suggested lesson ideas include learning about how “young environmental campaigners” use social media in Internet Technology classes and engaging with “hard-hitting” statistics about the planet’s ecological collapse in Maths.
Schools across the ceremonial county have also been given draft letters to send to parents asking them to drive less and pack meat-free lunchboxes for their children to try once a week.
The move comes in response to Devon’s self-declared climate emergency, which was announced by a consortium of 11 councils and over a dozen public, private and voluntary organisations in May 2019.
At the time the group called for “transformational change” to meet Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 that would see Devonians travelling less, changing their diets and using more smart energy systems.
The so-called ‘Net-Zero Visions Curriculum’, which was approved for schools by the DCE on July 21st ahead of the start of the next academic year in September, puts forward a series of lesson plans and guidance to enable teachers to overcome the challenges of educating children about climate change. …
Materials intended for use in Key Stage One to Four propose novel ways of helping pupils learn about the future of the Earth, which are said to be in response to mounting levels of anxiety among children about climate change.
One classroom exercise detailed in the curriculum involves children passing around an egg painted to look like a globe in between each other and taking a step back with every pass until it is dropped and broken.
It should then be explained, teachers are told, that “unlike the egg, the Earth can regenerate if we think about being more careful in how we act”. …
Physical Education is a chance to open “conversations about how air pollution might effect sports performance”, while Music lessons are suggested as an opportunity to study recordings such as the whale songs employed by the Save The Whales campaign in the 1970s.
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If you want to teach youngsters about the environment, take them outside and get them doing some natural history.
But that would make too much sense!
That would make absolutely no sense. They supposed to fear it, not to come to love it.
But they’d get wet and need special clothing… They’d also really enjoy it for the most part and learn a lot.
In my limited experience teaching science in schools the Hobgoblin was cancer. In particular one homework in the set book was “draft a letter to your MP about how you are scared of cancer because it was not “settled science” that overhead high voltage power lines did NOT cause cancer. In my own childhood the Hobgoblin was the threat of Nuclear Winter. There is always some scare being cultivated in order to obtain political and economic power. The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the shift from war towards environmental scares.
And yet when I grew up, in the fifties and into the sixties, although the risk of nuclear war was the greatest it ever has been, it was not thought necessary to teach us by fear. The only thing I remember was the civil defence man coming in to warn us about the very real risk of leftover bombs from Word War II.
Otherwise we picked up on the state of the world – no doubt biased and certainly sometimes catastrophised – from looking at the same newspapers and TV news as everyone else. It was all a long way away and less important than Supercar or football.
An example comes to mind from my brother’s early years at grammar school, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis, Tsar Bomba etc. As a poetry assignment some kid wrote:
I suspect such uncommitted levity about Ukraine, climate, gender or any of the other ideological tropes would get that kid suspended nowadays.
https://www.technocracy.news/four-billionaire-technocrats-are-creating-an-alternate-autocratic-reality/
The four killers named:
The prime actors: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen. These billionaires represent the tip of the spear. ⁃ TN Editor
Blimey 77 are back are they?
And if it’s not 77 perhaps one or two of the halfwits could tell me why my assessment is so wrong.
Good question. I missed this yesterday. Disappointing that no-one managed an argument. I think Musk is an overall ally judging by what he has done with “X”, but I doubt he’s trustworthy and may be a wrong’un. Afraid I don’t have time to read the article, but perhaps it’s the criticism of Musk that drew the downvotes.
“Teaching materials sent to schools last month by the Devon Climate Emergency (DCE), a local authority-led climate change initiative, aim to combat growing “climate anxiety” among five to 16 year-olds.”
Never fails does it – scare the children and then in the guise of helping ramp up the fear with “teaching materials.”
The children become confused and fearful and on top of that let’s make them physically poorly by pushing them in to veggieism. Many children will fail to understand the implications and requirements (supplements) of a vegetarian diet. Quite possibly the parents are not veggie so now we have children in dispute with parents. Pretty soon we have a poorly nourished generation of zombiefied youngsters ready to carry out any and every whim of society’s “leaders.”
Textbook stuff by the Davos Deviants.
As this short article makes abundantly clear, the children are NOT to be educated but indoctrinated as per Bliar’s favourite mantra –
Indoctrination, indoctrination, indoctrination.
You did it Tone.
Anti-human death cult alive and well…
And whilst one group of people is busy pushing their absurd net-zero agenda and another group of people is busy protesting against these agenda, most remain distracted from the big story: the collapse of the debt-based monetary system. An economy propped up by quantitative easing and massive government spending, persistently negative yield curves, the Bank of England predicting major losses for the first time in its over 300-year history, major banks collapsing, the housing market crashing with the stock market set to follow, Evergrande finally admitting bankruptcy, rapidly rising interest rates to control runaway inflation of basic necessities whilst economies dive into recession, unsustainable levels of public and private in the face of natural demographic decline. Oh yes, and the small matter that two thirds of the human population has been poisoned as part of a desperate attempt to usher in a centrally-planned globally economy.
+1000
Include politicians printing money to give to their friends’ businesses for “vital” products/services to keep everyone “safe”, then taking a percentage under the table as a “thank you”.
Followed by the “trickle down effect” of the bill being paid by the gullible public through the mechanism of inflation.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/08/28/were-all-suspects-in-a-dna-lineup-waiting-to-be-matched-with-a-crime/
The disturbing implications of the DNA databases being built, and rapidly, by our governments.
It particularly angers me that they’re targeting children in a heavily rural county where farming is still a significant industry. Chances are that in many classrooms outside of the two cities there will be at least one child with family connected to the farming business. Why is public money being wasted on these lies? Who has authorised these materials for use? Is this something that’s emerged from the local civil service blob or has it been okayed by the council itself? This is the trouble with Devon County Council operating from a relatively small city like Exeter with a large student population who will vote for crap councillors in term time while proper residents have to suffer the consequences of the crap for decades.
I.e. Don’t teach them Maths and by the sound of it don’t even teach them Stats.
Good luck with that; been trying for nigh on a decade to get my kids to eat their veg.
Just wait for what a few lessons about cruel abattoirs and CO2-poisoned walruses will achieve.
My eldest is 100% carnivore with a quasi-ideological aversion to veg. I recall a brief dalliance with vegetarianism in my teens, no doubt similar right-on motivation to go cruelty-free. My father announced at a family Christmas dinner that I was the only vegetarian he knew that didn’t eat vegetables. And that was the end of that!
A lady at work announced she was a “vegetarian”. I immediately asked “What part of Vegetaria are you from”? This was met by some sniggering from colleagues——–I think she got the message as all I got was a blank stare and she never mentioned it again.
We are funding this!,along with the funding for adults to groom children.
Perhaps it’s time to stop paying council tax, watch how quickly sense will come when councillors personal gravy train is at stake.
It’s the obsession with Net Zero in schools that’s driving the anxiety in children. They need to give it a rest and not bang on about it even more!
Devon is now screwed. I do not want to take a smelly dirty bus or train anywhere. I own a car, paid for it, paid for its upkeep, paid to insure it. Why do I no longer have the right to choose my mode of transport? Trains and busses exude the worst fumes. My hybrid does not. At the age of 80, I will not take a train nor bus to get anywhere.
There is no science that supports the idea of a “Climate Emergency” so why are authorities brainwashing children that there is one? —–Truth for our children would be that there are huge uncertainties about climate change, and that climate is actually poorly understood. So it means that children are not getting truth, they are getting LIES.————————- Politics is all about scaring the populace with an endless series of imaginary hobgoblins. There is no bigger hobgoblin than the one narrative cautionary tale called “climate change”. ——–Politicians would have great difficulty explaining even the very basics of climate and energy to 5 year olds, yet these same people are making education policy with the intention of influencing the very youngest children so they end up indoctrinated. ——-They might as well put brown shits on the kids and call them “Klima Jugend”
Schools should use a thermos flask containing very hot water to demonstrate that trapped heat cannot warm anything.